Metallurg beats Avangard for last Gagarin Cup’s semifinal spot

Metallurg snapped up the last remaining semifinal spot on offer in the KHL. The men from Magnitogorsk saw off Avangard after yet another close-run clash in Omsk. Hours before the decisive game, Avangard’s owners sacked the team’s head coach, Raimo Summanen, and it was his assistant, Igor Nikitin, who headed the team on Monday. It […]